2016 La Rioja Alta Rioja Viña Ardanza Reserva

Community Tasting Notes (78) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  5/10/2024 - tuleggi wrote: 95 Points

  Ruby colored to the eye, this wine has a bouquet of blackberry, saddle leather and clove. Tannins come on full-bore but are offset by vibrant acidity and bright flavors of pomegranate and red currant. Soft spice notes and a sense of earthiness linger on the taste buds.
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  Colour, dark-red cherry, garnet rim. Aroma, ripe fruit, fruit preserve, aged wood nuances, tobacco, sweet spices, scrubland. Flavour, spicy, round tannins, long, flavourful, elegant. Color, cereza oscuro, borde granate. Aroma, fruta madura, fruta confitada, ebanistería, tabaco, especias dulces, hierbas de monte. Boca, especiado, taninos maduros, largo, sabroso, elegante. Farbe, dunkles Kirschrot, granatroter Saum. Aroma, reifes Obst, Früchtekonfit, Noten von Tischlerei, Tabak, süße Gewürze, Buschwaldkräuter. Mund, würzig, reife Tannine, lang, geschmackvoll, elegant.
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  5/7/2024 - Condrieu82 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Ruby in color, with delicate nose of black currants with a touch of oak. Nice acidity and integrated tannins, with expressive black currants and bramble, and some notes of cocoa. Very elegant, with a medium+ finish that shows white pepper and some oak.
  A very pleasant wine in a good spot - although this was poured by the glass so I am not sure how much air it got beforehand.

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  5/7/2024 - tedcholl Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This wine for under $30 is a definite QPR alert. 1st of 6 bottles purchased and while young definitely very drinkable. All the wonderful flavors of a Rioja. cherry tobacco leather earthy oak

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  4/27/2024 - SimonS wrote: 91 Points

  A bucket of dark fruit in an oaken robe. Lovely now but with development to come.

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  4/25/2024 - Ryan@Rhone wrote: 92 Points

  Very enjoyable. Vanilla oak certainly dominates the nose. Plenty of fruit on the palate although nothing overly precise that I can lay out. Just enough acidity and tannin to give structure and balance. Finish comes back to the vanilla oak. Not the most complex but really enjoyable and easy to drink for me. Maybe better in a few years if the oak integrates but no need to wait if the mold strikes.

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